Key Planks Dropped From Highway Bill
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Two highway safety provisions that were essential to a compromise worked out by House and Senate negotiators were inadvertently dropped from the final version of a $217-billion highway and mass transit bill passed by Congress last week. The measures would penalize states that refuse to crack down on repeat drunk-driving offenders or drivers caught with open containers of alcoholic beverages in their vehicles.
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